Apps

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 * || [|7 Things You Should Know About Google Apps] || From Educause ||

Google Apps Education Edition
Google Apps Education Edition is a broad IT solution that schools can use to bring communication and collaboration tools to the entire academic community for free. Google manages all the technology details, so you can focus your time, energy and budgets on teaching your kids. Students, teachers and staff can share ideas more quickly and get things done more effectively when they have access to the same powerful communication and sharing tools. Google Apps Education Edition lets tech administrators provide email, sharable online calendars, instant messaging tools and even a dedicated website to faculty, students and staff for free. There's no hardware or software to install or maintain, since everything is delivered through a standard web browser -- anytime, from anyplace.


 * You can mix and match from the following services for your entire school** :


 * Gmail** - Offer email to your faculty, students and staff with 2 gigabytes of storage per account, search tools to help them find information fast, and instant messaging built right into the browser (chat can easily be disabled for the whole school if you don't want students to be able to IM with their accounts).


 * Google Talk** - Teachers and students can call or send instant messages to their contacts for free -- anytime, anywhere in the world. Imagine the possibilities for people collaborating on projects from different locations.


 * Google Calendar** - Everyone can organize their schedules and share events, meetings and entire calendars with others. You can even publish the school calendar on your website to let families know about events like back-to-school nights, homecoming and vacation days.


 * Google Docs** - Students and teachers can create documents, spreadsheets and presentations and then collaborate with each other in real-time right inside a web browser window.

IT decision-makers: [|learn more about Google Apps Education Edition] Faculty, teachers, and students: [|get started now with Google Apps Team Edition]
 * Google Sites** - Create a class site and edit it the same way you'd edit a document -- no technical expertise required. Your site can bring together all the information you want to share with your colleagues and students, including docs, calendars, photos, videos and attachments.

Google Apps Standard Edition** lets you set up for up to 50 users and all you have to do is buy a domain for $10. See: []
 * ALSO


 * [|Google Apps: Education Edition] (PDF)
 * [|Google Applications: A Case Study (Sludge Test 2.0)] (Presentation by Kevin Jarrett, NYC '07)
 * [|Google Tools for Educators Presentation] (Presentation by Molly Schroeder, MV 08)
 * [|The Google Gamut] (An Overview of the Google Tools by Kern Kelley, MV 08)
 * [|Googlize A Lesson] (Presentation by Stacie Isenberg, Chicago 08)
 * [|Free Tools Out The Wazoo] (Collection of links to Google and other useful free stuff by Rushton Hurley, MV 06)
 * [|A Knowledge Quest For Google Tools] (Learn How to Use Google Tools & Google Tools PowerPoints by Miriam Parkinson, NYC 07)
 * [|Become a Google Guru - a 12 step program] (12 classes on 2 different Google Tools by Erica Hartman Mountain View 08)